blandishment as a noun: - 1
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blandishment
noun
1 blandishment
Flattery intended to persuade.
synonyms: cajolery, palaver.
Roget 615:
motive,
springs of action,
wellsprings of action.
reason,
ground,
call,
principle;
by end,
by purpose;
mainspring,
primum mobile [Lat.],
keystone;
the why and the wherefore;
pro and con,
reason why;
secret motive,
arriere pensee [Fr.];
intention
etc.
620.
inducement,
consideration;
attraction;
loadstone;
magnet,
magnetism,
magnetic force;
allectation†,
allective†;
temptation,
enticement,
agacerie†,
allurement,
witchery;
bewitchment,
bewitchery;
charm;
spell
etc.
993;
fascination,
blandishment,
cajolery;
seduction,
seducement;
honeyed words,
voice of the tempter,
song of the Sirens forbidden fruit,
golden apple.
persuasibility†,
persuasibleness†;
attractability†;
impressibility,
susceptibility;
softness;
persuasiveness,
attractiveness;
tantalization†.
influence,
prompting,
dictate,
instance;
impulse,
impulsion;
incitement,
incitation;
press,
instigation;
provocation
etc.
(excitation of feeling)
824;
inspiration;
persuasion,
suasion;
encouragement,
advocacy;
exhortation;
advice
etc.
695;
solicitation
etc.
(request)
765;
lobbyism;
pull [Slang].
incentive,
stimulus,
spur,
fillip,
whip,
goad,
ankus†,
rowel,
provocative,
whet,
dram.
bribe,
lure;
decoy,
decoy duck;
bait,
trail of a red herring;
bribery and corruption;
sop,
sop for Cerberus.
prompter,
tempter;
seducer,
seductor†;
instigator,
firebrand,
incendiary;
Siren,
Circe;
agent provocateur;
lobbyist.
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Roget 902:
endearment,
caress;
blandishment,
blandiment†;
panchement,
fondling,
billing and cooing,
dalliance,
necking,
petting,
sporting,
sparking,
hanky-panky;
caressing.
embrace,
salute,
kiss,
buss,
smack,
osculation,
deosculation†;
amorous glances.
courtship,
wooing,
suit,
addresses,
the soft impeachment;
lovemaking;
serenading;
caterwauling.
flirting
etc.
v.;
flirtation,
gallantry;
coquetry.
true lover's knot,
plighted love;
love tale,
love token,
love letter;
billet-doux,
valentine.
honeymoon;
Strephon and Chloe†.
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Roget 933:
flattery,
adulation,
gloze;
blandishment,
blandiloquence†;
cajolery;
fawning,
wheedling
etc.
v.;
captation†,
coquetry,
obsequiousness,
sycophancy,
flunkeyism†,
toadeating†,
tuft-hunting;
snobbishness.
incense,
honeyed words,
flummery;
bunkum,
buncombe;
blarney,
placebo,
butter;
soft soap,
soft sawder†;
rose water.
voice of the charmer,
mouth honor;
lip homage;
euphemism;
unctuousness
etc.
adj..
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Dutch: mooipraterij, pluimstrijkerij, ophemeling, hielenlikkerij, vleierij
2 blandishment
The act of urging by means of teasing or flattery.
synonym: wheedling.
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